The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[NUFAN]

Are you saying Ned Flanders made left handedness cool?

 

[mr_mister]

I think it could have been when religion became a bit less all encompassing in the 70s and 80s

My dad, born in '53 was born left hand dominant but when he was in kindergarten the nuns/christian brothers at his school made him write right handed because of something to do with the devil and left handed people. Eventually he became right handed. Lol

 

[NUFAN]

Religion hey? Are you saying Ned Flanders made left handedness cool?

 

[aussie tragic]

I have no idea how people can do it. Different dominant hands for batting and bowling.

My left hand is useless for nearly everything in life. Batting, bowling, catching, bedroom activities, etc

I broke my right arm playing League when 13 and had to use my left arm for everything for 2 months. 40 years later and I still open Jars and soft drink bottles with my left hand...go figure

 

[ankitj]

Gavaskar and Boycott opening together...

What would happen first? Annoyed spectators rioting, one of them running the other out or having a meltdown?

Latter.

I would pay to watch Gavaskar's batting tbh.

 

[ankitj]

best I've seen

Hayden
Sehwag
Smith
Tendulkar
Lara
Gilchrist
Flintoff
Warne
Steyn
Ambrose
Muralitharan
McGrath

^ Best I have seen

 

[a massive zebra]

England team of the 21st century

Alastair Cook
Michael Vaughan(c)
Kevin Pietersen
Joe Root
Graham Thorpe
Ben Stokes
Matt Prior(wk)
Andrew Flintoff
Graeme Swann
Stuart Broad
James Anderson

 

[Lancashire Nick]

I have no idea how people can do it. Different dominant hands for batting and bowling.

My left hand is useless for nearly everything in life. Batting, bowling, catching, bedroom activities, etc

The captain of my school team batted and bowled left handed, but threw right handed ! Go figure.

 

[trundler]

Latter.

I would pay to watch Gavaskar's batting tbh.

Of course I would do the same. No competition for his spot at the top in the last 50 years when it comes to opening bats.

 

[Red]

Love watching an attritional opener do his thing. Just buckle down for an hour or two while the ball does a bit, see off the shine and the will of the opening bowlers. Nothing better.

 

[kyear2]

Love watching an attritional opener do his thing. Just buckle down for an hour or two while the ball does a bit, see off the shine and the will of the opening bowlers. Nothing better.

I don't know, think would prefer a Barry Richards counter attack, putting the bowlers on the defensive. Probably because my earliest cricketing hero was Greenidge. But yeah.

 

[Gob]

^ Best I have seen

long tail though. ftr Freddy won't make it to my top 10 best players overall but he does wonders to the balance of that side

 

[Prince EWS]

long tail though. ftr Freddy won't make it to my top 10 best players overall but he does wonders to the balance of that side

Yeah you can't bat Warne at seven.

 

[a massive zebra]

England team of 1970-99

Geoff Boycott
Graham Gooch (c)
Alec Stewart
David Gower
Robin Smith
Tony Greig
Ian Botham
Alan Knott (wk)
John Snow
Bob Willis
Derek Underwood

 

[Logan]

Latter.

I would pay to watch Gavaskar's batting tbh.

Imagine Gavaskar and Dravid batting together. At least India wouldn’t lose easily.

 

[Flametree]

I'm fairly sure the Flower brothers' father forced them to bat the "wrong" way, with the dominant hand on top. Certainly worked for Andy.

Recently the entire English bowling attack all bowled right and batted left - Broad, Anderson, Stokes, Moeen, and Finn I think was the 5th.

 

[bagapath]

Love watching an attritional opener do his thing. Just buckle down for an hour or two while the ball does a bit, see off the shine and the will of the opening bowlers. Nothing better.

Me too. Watching Gavaskar nullify express fast bowling with his patience, concentration and technique used to be great great fun in my school days...

 

[a massive zebra]

England team of 1945-69

Len Hutton
Colin Cowdrey
Peter May (c)
Ken Barrington
Denis Compton
Ted Dexter
Godfrey Evans (wk)
Johnny Wardle
Jim Laker
Fred Trueman
Alec Bedser

 

[h_hurricane]

An Indian XI in the same time period

Mankad
Borde
Manjrekar
Hazare
Umrigar
Pataudi
Engineer
Phadkar
Nadkarni
Desai
Gupte

Haven't considered Merchant(only 4 tests during this period) and the spin trio(who were mostly 70s players).

 

[Coronis]

Where do you guys think the current crop of NZ batsmen rate against their all time counterparts?